[danpalmer]

I'm persisting, have been using LLMs quite a bit for the last year, they're now where I start with any new project. Throughout that time I've been doing constant experimentation and have made significant workflow improvements throughout.

I've found that they're a moderate productivity increase, i.e. on a par with, say, using a different language, using a faster CI system, or breaking down some bureaucracy. Noticeable, worth it, but not entirely transformational.

I only really get useful output from them when I'm holding _most_ of the context that I'd be holding if writing the code, and that's a limiting factor on how useful they can be. I can delegate things that are easy, but I'm hand-holding enough that I can't realistically parallelise my work that much more than I already do (I'm fairly good at context switching already).